Covid-19: Degree of movement of people worries health authorities in Mozambique – Watch

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Covid-19: Degree of movement of people worries health authorities in Mozambique – Watch

10:35 CAT | 28 Apr 2020

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The Mozambican Ministry of Health (MISAU) on Monday expressed its concern about the degree of movement of people, three days away from the end of the state of emergency decreed to contain the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus in the country.

“The limitation of internal movement of people: the classification of the degree of implementation is insufficient because, despite the measures decreed, there is still a lot of movement of people on public roads,” said the minister of health, Armindo Tiago.

Minister Tiago was speaking in Maputo during a working meeting between the president and the Scientific-Technical Commission for Prevention of Covid-19.

The minister advocated the strengthening of awareness actions, recalling that the objective of closing schools and entertainment establishments is to reduce the degree of circulation to contain the spread of the disease.

In general, MISAU classified the implementation of the state of emergency as ‘enough’, despite the need for awareness and inspection in informal sectors for compliance with social distance.

MISAU has classified compliance with the suspension of classes as ‘good’, although students staying at home does not seem to have the desired impact.

The suspension of events had ‘good’ compliance, but the challenges are the funeral ceremonies where there are more people than recommended.

“The recommendation is the use of masks” to counter the scenario, the minister said.

The government’s communication strategy has been pointed out as ‘good’, but the challenge is how to involve community leaders in the process.

Mozambique, which is in a state of emergency during the month of April, has a total of 76 cases of infection by the new coronavirus, with no record of deaths.

The number of deaths caused by covid-19 in Africa has risen to 1,423, with 31,933 cases of the disease registered in 52 countries, according to the latest pandemic statistics on the continent.

Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Equatorial Guinea leads in the number of infections (258) and one death, followed by Cabo Verde (106 and one death), Guinea-Bissau (53 and one death), Angola (26 infected and two deaths) and Sao Tome e Principe has four confirmed cases.